As a Brit who is interested in American politics I has always been curious as to why with your secular constitution religion still plays a huge part.

I was brought up as Christian and I thought the message of Jesus was

1. Not to have prejudices towards people different to yourselves [good Samariton story].2. Have social awareness [do unto others that you would have them do unto you]3. Do not worship wealth cause you won't get into heaven [needles and camels]

It seams to me that a large proportion of the Republic party, and many Democrats, do not hold the all above three values.

I feel that the world is changing and eventually the we will accept all sorts.

I know that Barney Frank is an openly gay congressman.I suspect that Barack Obama is actually atheist [although being first black POTUS should be enough].

I'll bet we have a woman (straight, happily married of course) before we have either. Like Hillary Clinton, although we may have to revise the "happily" part. I'm sure she just winces when she looks at Bill sometimes. The lovable skit-chasing rogue persona gets old fast.

I would say that atheism has already crept into the minds of some past POTUS, even if their religiosity was only diminished to deism. If you define an atheist as "any person who is not a theist", then you could say that a deist is an atheist, just like a man is an ape.

I don't know what it is like to be born gay. At what point of childhood does the realization that you are gay manifest itself in your mind? I'm sure it varies from child to child. I haven't heard of any suspected gay POTUS. Would they have been able to keep it in the closet and out of the history books if they were gay? It would be difficult, but I would have to leave open the possibility. Let's just say it wouldn't be science-fiction.

I remembered on the Huffington post about what our Founding Father's believed, they classified Jefferson as an Episcopal, but when Jefferson was vying for President, the opponents constantly tagged him as an atheist, and he never attempted to refute those claims, so it's kind of hard to tell.

With that being said, we may have had a few atheist Presidents in the past.

I would say that atheism has already crept into the minds of some past POTUS, even if their religiosity was only diminished to deism. If you define an atheist as "any person who is not a theist", then you could say that a deist is an atheist, just like a man is an ape.

No a Deist is a theist, essentially an almost agnostic theist.

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An Omnipowerful God needed to sacrifice himself to himself (but only for a long weekend) in order to avert his own wrath against his own creations who he made in a manner knowing that they weren't going to live up to his standards.

He proclaimed himself to be a Christian, repeatedly, however when you actually analyze his proclaimed beliefs...essentially a Deist.

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An Omnipowerful God needed to sacrifice himself to himself (but only for a long weekend) in order to avert his own wrath against his own creations who he made in a manner knowing that they weren't going to live up to his standards.

Despite this, I voted gay because atheism is a choice versus gayness which isn't. People don't like it when someone chooses to totally disregard their cherished beliefs. Lots of gays are theists so I think they have a better shot.